Symbols and Society: Politics of Symbolization and Collective Memory 3500-FAKM-SYMSPOL
The issues of the seminar include the symbolic dimension of social life. Various forms and functions of social symbolism will be discussed, especially symbolic power and the politics of symbolization encompassing collective memory. The formation and transmission of collective memory are key socio-cultural processes. The issues of communities of memory, the politics of memory, settling accounts with the past and conflicts over memory – local, international and global – have made research on memory, forgetting and commemoration occupy a central place among research problems in the social sciences. Research on social memory and its symbolic carriers includes, on the one hand, identity-forming and integration policies of ethnic, national or European memory, and on the other, the intensifying symbolic conflicts over collective memory. The general category of memory includes many mnemonic phenomena that will be analyzed, such as the concepts of collective memory, cultural memory and biographical memory. The problem of cultural trauma and memory of trauma will be considered. Participants of the seminar will critically analyze selected issues and analytical categories relating to social symbolism, the politics of symbolization, and the politics of memory
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Assessment criteria
Participation in a discussion, presentation of a problem based on the reading, written work - essay.
Acceptable number of excused absences: 2
Rules for making retakes: written work in accordance with standards.
Workload: participation in the seminar – 30 hrs.; readings – 40 hrs.; paper and presentation – 10 hrs.; elaboration and presentation of the essay’s problems – 10 hrs.; preparation and presentation of the essay – 30 hrs. Total: 120 hrs
Bibliography
Literatura
Assmann Aleida, Między historią a pamięcią, Warszawa 2013: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, s. 39-57.
Cohen Anthony, Symboliczne konstruowanie wspólnoty, Warszawa: Narodowe Centrum Kultury, s. 112-133.
Connerton Paul, Jak społeczeństwa pamiętają, Warszawa 2012: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, s. 31-37.
Hałas Elżbieta, Symbole publiczne a polska tożsamość. Zmiana i niejednoznaczność w kalendarzu świąt państwowych III Rzeczypospolitej, „Kultura i Społeczeństwo”, 2001: nr 3-4, ss. 49-67.
Hałas Elżbieta, Przez pryzmat kultury, Warszawa 2015: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, s. 161-171.
Hałas Elżbieta, Symbole i społeczeństwo. Szkice z socjologii interpretacyjnej, Warszawa 2007: Wydawnictwa UW, s. 55-73.
Macdonald Sharon, Krainy pamięci. O dziedzictwie i tożsamości we współczesnej Europie, Kraków 2021: Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, s. 127-150.
Ricoeur Paul, Pamięć, historia, zapomnienie, Kraków 2007: UNIVERSITAS, s. 585-600
Uspienski Boris, Historia i semiotyka, Gdańsk 1998: słowo / obraz terytoria, s. 53-61.
Verdery Katherine, The Political Life of Dead Bodies. Reburial and Postsocialist Change, New York: Columbia University Press, s. 1-22.
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